Bitcoin News – December 2017

December was a super exciting month for Bitcoin, with the first live Lightning Transactions happening, some insights in the upgrades coming in 2018 and a lot of charitable donations by bitcoiners. It was also a month of exposing incompetence, as many journalists received a lot of criticism for poorly informed Bitcoin coverage and many businesses got backlash for complaining about scaling for a year only to not adopt SegWit. The bitcoin price also almost reached $20k.

What the monthly news is about:
Each day, usually around the same time, I pick out the most popular/relevant/interesting stories in r/bitcoin and save them, after which I release them in one batch after the month ended. This gives you a quick (but not necessarily the best) overview of what happened in bitcoin over the past month.